[fpc-pascal] freeing string equal to setting to empty string?

Joao Morais post at joaomorais.com.br
Wed Jul 23 22:10:35 CEST 2008


Luca Olivetti wrote:
> El Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:15:13 +0200
> Marc Santhoff <M.Santhoff at t-online.de> escribió:
> 
>> That's the important part, I'm dealing with cleanly freeing strings
>> when destroying objects.
> 
> I may be wrong but I think you don't need to do anything, when you free
> a class the memory used by string fields is automagically freed
> (either that or heaptrc is lying[*] when it says my programs aren't
> leaking memory)

Yup. Ansi strings, refcounted interfaces and dyn arrays are 
automagically freed when declared as class members and you destroy the 
instance.

Joao Morais



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